Here is an email I sent out to our house church (home fellowship group) after the first night. We haven't even been a part of our house church this year (I think we went twice) because our life has been so crazy, but I am so thankful that they were praying for us and the students all week.
Hi Dear House Church Friends,
Wow. Wow. Wow. After our week of kidney stones, children with fevers, ear infections & freakish rashes, out of town company, and overall STRESS, God did a great work in the group of students we brought to Pure Rebellion. Our turn out wasn't the 30 students we anticipated, but God knew who needed to be there. The enemy seemed to be against getting us there all week- even on the way there we were running late in the pouring rain and were stopped by an unmoving train. We re-routed and finally made it and the Lord met us! We had guys and girls in tears over the final skit of Jesus taking our suffering upon his shoulders. And our entire row went up to bow down & surrender to Jesus at the end! When it ended the whole group circled in prayer. As we walked to the car, the kids were saying things like, "AWESOME!" "Thank you for bringing us!" "That was so good!" "I want to come to your church!" and one boy wiped his eyes and said about the skit, "I haven't cried like that in seven years! I loved that skit. At the end when Jesus jumped in and took it for her, I was like YEAH!! They should record that skit; I want to see it again!" The car rides home were more of the same things... excitement over the event and repeating/sharing the things that they thought were cool. There were girls who really liked hearing from the married couple about when a guy is willing to wait, that is REAL love. When we all got back to Turner, Jonny and the other two leaders stayed late at the club building talking and praying with the kids. The things that stood out were the topic of a kiddy-pool christian and rebelling against our culture to live pure lives.
One really cool story: There was a sophomore boy who moved away after last year and has been (we think) living alone in Cottage Grove. He came from a terrible home and is now an emancipated minor because of abuse from his parents. He randomly came up to visit one of the other sophomore boys and ended up coming along. At the end of the program, when they gave the first invitation to follow Jesus, he bolted from his seat with a look of urgency and went up front and bowed down. The boy sitting next to him put his hands on his face and burst into tears. Jonny went up front to sit with the boy and through the next two invitations to follow Jesus and live a pure life, they all came up. Jonny encouraged them to pray and lay it all down before the Lord, and that He would be faithful to start a redemptive work in their lives. At the end of the night they gave that boy a bible, and its looking like a christian family in Turner may be opening up their home for him to come live with them. PRAISE THE LORD!
There were so many more that we wanted to come, so Jonny is going to try to bring more tonight. We'll see what kind of response he gets.
Phew, talk about goose bumps! Love you guys & thank you for praying. Keep praying that these kids could be set apart at Cascade High School and be a witness to their unsaved friends!
~Jonny & Jess
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